Endless Useless Musings

CNN.com - Is the fat acceptance movement bad for our health?

"Many organizations and businesses are championing a new definition of beauty -- one that is not dictated by waist size -- but is that message undermining our health and allowing overweight people, most of whom are not healthy, to become complacent?"

Entire article here.

Please note the incongruity between the headline, sub-headline and actual discussions being presented within the article.

Also please note that only thin people sell things in ads. Only thin people get to be in most movies and TV shows, and those Dove models? Fat? Yeah and so is Kate Winslet.

EDIT: Better not be complacent, chubby! Unlike the rest of us, we can SEE your sins!

DOUBLE EDIT: Does anyone really think it's possible to enter an age where we don't shame and humiliate people based on their fatness? Dude, we will solve global warming first. We will solve global warming and start talking to dolphins.

TRES: Ironic use of picture given context?

I want to talk about cliche, but in a different sort of context. I'm still putting my thoughts together on this, so forgive me if I'm a little obtuse.

( Large spoilers for FF13. Also the new Star Trek, The Dark Knight and some Michael Bay crap under cut. )

( a thought about FF12 )

After dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way to the golem's colon.

Hooray FF4.

I WANT TO BE A ROCKSTAR SINGER, GUYS.
But an artist, too. Kinda like Gerard Way, as my gf pointed out. Except not really his style because I'm a different person and reallly can't sing like him, and have a different art aesthetic than he does, but -- yeah. I want to learn to dress up strange and crazy-fun, and to hit all the notes and bounce around like an idiot on stage and make everyone sing WITH me. I want to be awesome enough to be able to ask to collaborate with my favourite artists, just to know how it would sound/look. I want to be *awesome*.

I really should sleep, cause I'm awake enough to know that I sound like a blithering idiot, but tired enough that I REALLLLLY don't care. Anyway.

Yeah. Rockstars. Art.

And I want to live a long time and be really young for it while I'm at it, so I might as well be an awesome magical creature rockstar artist, too. HEY AS LONG AS I'M IN FANTASY-LAND, GUYS.

... and I would seriously punch a nun for a big bowl of El Azteco chips and cheese dip.

There are days I miss East Lansing and then there are days I miss the hell out of East Lansing.

Metroid pincushion. I stitched too close together while doing it, so the construction got... creative later on.

Me: Where are you in FF12? Let me look it up. Where's the game guide? You sitting on it?

Luny: If I sit on it long enough, maybe it'll hatch into a better game.

I cannot believe how little has happened, and apparently there's only three events until endgame.

Good lord, I've had dental surgery less painful than this.

Five episodes in, and it reminds me a bit of Mushi-shi and a bit of Kino no Tabi, though not as sad as either of those are.

I'd recommend it.

Happy New Year everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xaGvwRdMw

that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tombstone isn't engraved with: I WROTE OTHER THINGS.

Poor guy.

I enjoyed the shit out of Avatar. Even more than Sherlock Holmes. Even with that scene where RDJ is shirtless and sweaty and in slow motion.

It helps that it's Tuesday, the day I ponder the myriad ways I've utterly failed in life, and also that it's currently zero freaking kelvin outside (plus windchill), but for like three hours I was just able to turn my brain off and enjoy some really nice texture mapping.

Escapism. Goes down smooth.

Antonio doesn't get Bassiano in Merchant of Venice. And I figure it's funny if the same Antonio doesn't get Sebastian in Twelfth Night. Because really, a sudden marriage to a woman who mistakes him for his twin sister who is dressed up as a man - that is some epic Cockblocking of Fate. Way more than in Merchant of Venice.

So someone needs to write a new play called "Antonio's Big Score" where Antonio attempts to kill himself in a spectacularly poetic shipwreck, but manages to find the only three non-stormy weeks in the whole of Shakespeare, and just devotes himself to dying vaguely grumpy and alone, adamantly refusing to get involved with yet another cute young thing with lofty goals and no money or presumed dead, cross-dressing siblings.

Of course, that's when some cute young thing falls hard for him, and some comely young woman decides to help him get his man.

Hijinx. Then happy ending.

EDIT: Why yes, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Finnes were molten hot, why do you ask?

... when I want a 'Hero and the Crown' movie so bad I can taste it.

I think it was while I was watching that 'Clash of the Titans' preview and I was thinking, my god, the Aerin/Maur battle would be unholy with current CG techniques.

Other movies I would very much like to see:

'So You Want to Be a Wizard" - the trilogy, through High Wizardry.

It's kind of interesting to still be wading about in FF4 with FF13 poised to hit the market like a dead cat. Especially in lieu of the Wired preview which... well, it pretty much says it all.

Which is sad, because Sqauresoft was really one of the first if not the first companies to go big, to give you the whole world to explore - I mean, that's what the airship is all about. Go above the world, go below, try to hear Cecil over the sound of his constant teamkilling. Wander around, find towns, dick around for 18 hours mating chocobos while Meteor hangs in the air and Sephiroth plays Bejeweled on his PHS and waits for you to show up. Go to the mountains. Be amazed that Fran's fur-and-iron-bikini combo still manage to do the job.

So this time around, they don't have the characters. Or the visuals (it's all just a big FFX retread), or the story. Or, apparantly, the game mechanics.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Then: Penguins! Carousel horses! STEPPIN TIME!

Now: Actually, the little kid has a point. If he gives his tuppence to the lady with the birds, it gets almost immediately redistributed back into the economy, instead of going into a bank and sitting there. Saving too much can make an economy falter, just as much as it can to - WOO! STEPPIN TIME!

I really love that 70 minute Phantom Menace review. I keep watching that section over and over.

Finished Assassin's Creed 2, minus some sidebars. Happily and eagerly ready for Assassin's Creed 3, thanks.

Sherlock Holmes - The best part of this movie was the soundtrack. Not that it wasn't a perfectly serviceable movie, but the soundtrack is just spectacular. Unlike Thomas Newman, who does have this theme that runs through all of his work - you can hear the similarities between Wall-E, Nemo, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Angels in America - Hans Zimmer's theme is simply exceptional quality. Gladiator alone has themes that have been punked for a dozen similar scores since then, and hell, grab a track from Black Hawk Down and one from Sherlock Holmes. Both very good at pulling together the visuals, both completely different from one another.

EDIT: If anyone finds any good movieverse Holmes fic, please toss me a link. I am somewhat eager to see what becomes of this.